

Alongside peers like Karkwa and Marie-Pierre Arthur, Alexandre Désilets has been instrumental in nudging off-kilter indie pop into Quebec's mainstream. While he initially mined the moody but melodic art rock of mid-'90s Radiohead, Désilets would embrace a more robust sound with 2014's aptly titled Fancy Ghetto, whose balance of jitter and jangle recalled the nervy New Wave of Phoenix and piano-pounded soul of Spoon. But his next move was definitely more fancy than ghetto: 2016 saw the release of Windigo, an orchestral overhaul of songs from Désilets' first three albums.